Thank You!!
Donating Art materials can change the lives of our aging community!! Artsy Smartsy aims to provide inexpensive FINE Art classes to senior citizens who have very limited incomes. I try to bring in QUALITY art projects which our seniors can be PROUD to call THEIRS! They will want to display their works and give them as gifts. This goal requires that we use HIGH quality materials each and every class!
With this goal in mind, we also are aware of "Saving the Earth" and will try to reuse, reduce and recycle where at all possible. Being a LEED certified designer, I try to RR&R whenever possible, especially when creating Art! All of our ART projects have some level of Recycling, Reusing or Reducing .
If you would consider donating any of your used craft materials to Artsy Smartsy we would greatly appreciate it!!
We want to thank everyone who has found treasures for US while cleaning out their craft room, while moving their aging parent to a smaller home, or people who do ART as their business and have donated thier products to benefit our cause! There are Soooo many of you, and we couldn't do it without you!
Our current project needs:
Other items which could be used, not in any particular order:
- Stained Glass art materials-small pieces ok for ornaments
- Vintage old and browning paper; sheet music
- Lace, fabric, tea stained brown and old OK
- Fleece blankets, fabricremnants 18"+ OK
- Encaustic, Sealing Wax
- Gilding, Gold & Silver leaf
- Coins-fake or tokens OK
- Paper Game Money, scrabble letters
- Wooden Cigar Boxes
- Leather & Suede remenants of all sizes, small OK
- Miniature misc. colorful objects
- Bingo Cards and tokens
- Raffia
- Wood shapes-paintable
- Glitter Glues
- Handmade Papers
- Wire Mesh or screen
- Clean Colored Craft Sand
- Game Pieces: Letters, Dominoes, chess pieces, game boards
- Tiny Bottles, glass or plastic
- Metal Tags
- Shipping Tags/Labels
- Tiny Locks & keys
- Netting
- Buttons-The older the better!
- Stamping inks
- Paints :Acrylic, watercolor, tempera
- Stenciling paint pencils
- Thread, Ribbon ,String, Wire
- Charms
- Beads, Glass Rocks, Small Gem Stones, Marbles
- Eyelets & Brads
- Typewriter Parts and Keys
- Washers and eyehooks and keychain parts
- Jewelry: Chunks of old, broken stained and rusted OK
- Glass babyfood jars
- Vintage bus tickets, maps, report cards, luggage tags, time cards, postcards
- Optometrist Lens
- Glass or plastic slides
- Raffle Tickets
- Menus
- Love Letters
- Foreign Newspapers
- Gum Wrappers, colored foil candy wrappers
- Gift Tags
- Shrink It Plastic & Gun
- Canvas rolls
- Slide Holders
- Transparencies
- Foam pieces, sticjers
- Chalks
- Colored Pencils
- Tissue Paper-wrinkled OK, all colors and textures
- Polymer Clay
- Corks
- Doilies
- Beans & seeds
- Plastic bubble tops from cold coffee drinks.
- Vintage paper dolls
- Glass tiles, broken OK
- TShirts or stretchy fabric
- Iron-ons
- Stickers
- Paper flowers or card making ephemera